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    Film is a body of work

    Morgana O’Reilly’s bringing her Stories About My Body to Queenstown next Sunday. Photo: Amanda...

    Film is a body of work

    An in-demand Kiwi actress is especially looking forward to bringing a filmed adaptation of her one-woman show, plus a Q&A, to Queenstown’s Silky Otter cinema next Sunday, July 26.

    Highland dancers impress

    Queenstown Highland Dance Club charges, back, from left, Lillianna Badenhop, Anikka Viitakangas...

    Highland dancers impress

    A young Queenstown dancer’s just been named runner-up in her age group at the New Zealand Highland Dancing Championships.

    Tech sector leg-up

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    Tech sector leg-up

    A two-day conference in Queenstown next week will do more to help diversify the resort’s tourism-dependent economy than almost anything imaginable.

    Butcher, baker . . .

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    Butcher, baker . . .

    Queenstown's iconic Fergburger empire’s applied for resource consent for a Fergbaker takeaway in Arrowtown’s Ramshaw Lane.

    A different kind of slope style

    Australian influencer @hollyleeboorman decked out in a Chalet Girl. designer ski rental outfit in...

    A different kind of slope style

    Queenstown's Ella James is on a mission to bring some accessible glamour to our winter.

    voco arrives in Q’town

    voco Queenstown general manager Jason Sabin outside the hotel, formerly known as Holiday Inn...

    voco arrives in Q’town

    One of Queenstown’s newest hotels has just had a major refurb, and rebrand.

    Team’s French connection

    Nils Stupnicki, one of the Wakatipu Prems’ two French halfbacks this season. PHOTO: JAMES ALLAN...

    Team’s French connection

    Remarkably, two French rugby players who didn’t know each other — and didn’t know much English, either — have ended up playing for the Wakatipu Premiers this season.

    Riders on a roll

    Photo: ODT files

    Riders on a roll

    Queenstown mountain bikers are continuing to impress in Europe.

    Winter swim from GY to Q’town

     Jemimah McIlroy finishing last weekend’s Whakatipu Legend swim. PHOTO: JAMES ALLAN PHOTOGRAPHY

    Winter swim from GY to Q’town

    Undertaking a rare long-distance winter swim of Lake Whakatipu this week is 19-year-old Otago Polytechnic sport and exercise student Jemimah McIlroy.

    Swimmers embracing the South’s deep freeze

    Arrowtown’s Finn Henderson and Queenstown’s Anneke Veenstra, centre, and Bethany Rogers are...

    Swimmers embracing the South’s deep freeze

    As if it’s not cold enough already, three brave Whakatipu athletes will be swimming in the 25m Alexandra outdoor pool between today and Saturday.

    Wild deals to Inferno

    PHOTO: ODT FILES

    Wild deals to Inferno

    Scoring-wise, it was the Burstein-Bennetts show.

    'Land-banking opportunity': Community centre sells for $4m

    Outlined in yellow, 4 Park St, on the corner with Brisbane St, has just sold for $4,080,000....

    'Land-banking opportunity': Community centre sells for $4m

    Turns out Queenstown’s Happiness House was sitting on a gold mine.

    'Heartbroken': Queenstown school's tribute after death of 7-year-old

    Maite's family used this image, blurred to protect their privacy, on a Givealitte page to raise...

    'Heartbroken': Queenstown school's tribute after death of 7-year-old

    A "heartbroken" Queenstown primary school has paid tribute to a young pupil who died just hours after visiting hospital.

    Townhouse developer buys up another plot in Queenstown

    Wolfbrook Residential’s bought this 1264sq m Robins Rd site, marketed by local Colliers agents...

    Townhouse developer buys up another plot in Queenstown

    A Christchurch-based developer has bought a fourth high-density residential-zoned central Queenstown site for a townhouse development.

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    Airport upgrade officially lifts off

    Breaking ground on Queenstown Airport’s new heavy taxiway on Tuesday morning are (from left)...

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    Airport upgrade officially lifts off

    Queenstown Airport’s biggest airfield investment is officially under way.

    'We suffer until the last moment': World Cup emotions run high in Queenstown

    Despondent England fans as their team came up short in the World Cup semi-final against Argentina...

    'We suffer until the last moment': World Cup emotions run high in Queenstown

    From elation to deflation.

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    City centre gridlock gripes grow

    Queenstown’s central business area is coming to an almost complete standstill at peak times of...

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    City centre gridlock gripes grow

    Frustration is growing at delays in reopening a central Queenstown road that has causing gridlock on the nearby Gorge Rd arterial — worsened by high volumes of skifield and school holiday traffic.

    Girl dies hours after Qtown hospital discharge

    Maite's family used this image, blurred to protect their privacy, on a Givealitte page to raise...

    'Tragic situation': Girl dies hours after discharge from Queenstown hospital

    The sudden death of a 7-year-old girl just hours after she visited Queenstown’s Lakes District Hospital has been referred to the coroner. 

    Aurora Energy apologises after power cuts affect 750

    PHOTO: ODT FILES

    Aurora Energy apologises after power cuts affect 750

    Queenstown restaurants, bars and commercial accommodation were among those left without power to start the Matariki long weekend.

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    Swimmers brave ‘pretty chilly’ Wakatipu

    Hardy swimmers from throughout Otago, many without wetsuits, brave the chilly water of Queenstown...

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    Swimmers brave ‘pretty chilly’ Wakatipu

    It was either ‘‘splash and dash’’ or just chilling at the fourth annual RealNZ Whakatipu Legend winter swim in Queenstown on Saturday.
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